Some Roster Construction Thoughts

Russ2dollas said:
Why not just bring up Minter? He's 23 and over a year from TJ. He's killing kids. He's a reliever so who knows how long he'll last. He throws with his LH.

Wildcard is Paco....seems like his health is not good b/c he was listed as a potential non-tender guy by Bowman (IIRC).

But Krol plus Minter should be ok from the left side. I'm not sure we need to throw money or prospects at another LH reliever.

I would like to have a LH starter if we can. I think it's good to give teams another look. But I'd prefer to get the best pitcher I can than the best LH. But if I have two I think are equal I'd go for the lefty.
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Not saying this will happen, but I have read in different places that Minter might want to start again. I am curious if he will go that route or not. It would slow his accent to the bigs, but increase his value as a prospect.
 
We may not need to sign a lefty reliever, but why not. We have the money to spend and it's great to have a lefty reliever to trade come July. It's just another way of buying a prospect.
 
Since he possibly won't receive a QO now... I'd like to see Ramos signed as he will probably be much cheaper now that he won't be ready at the beginning of the season. I'd rather have him than McCann.
 
zbhargrove said:
Since he possibly won't receive a QO now... I'd like to see Ramos signed as he will probably be much cheaper now that he won't be ready at the beginning of the season. I'd rather have him than McCann.
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H's probably going to an AL team. This is his 2nd torn ACL on the same knee. He may never catch regularly again.
 
Not the direction anyone expects the brass to go, but if there were any sense that Wisler and Folty could be counted on next season and things could be worked out (including Coppy being willing to give up next year's second-rounder) some points made on Inside Pitch (on XM) would be quite interesting...

1.) Trade Ellis and Mader (non-core prospects) for Santana (not mentioned by them, but we've kicked Santana around for some time)

2.) Trade Blair for Mac if the Yankees pay $7 million per (they seem to think that Cashman will eventually cave when it's obvious that everyone's going to call his bluff and just try to move his contract)

3.) Sign Justin Turner for 4/$64 million (and give up the pick)

4.) Trade Mallex, Ruiz, and Sims to Tampa for Smyly (also my mention - not something they touched on)

CF- Inciarte, SS- Swanson, 1B- Freeman, LF- Kemp, C- Mac, 3B- Turner, RF- Markakis, 2B- Peterson (Albies)

Teheran, Santana, Smyly, Folty, Wisler (with Newcomb, Whalen, Jenkins, and possibly Weigel in Gwinnett by midseason)

Salaries would be $121,450,000 before renewals.

Definitely a pipe dream but that team would be capable of making some noise, and you'd still have all the young guns we've collected (Newcomb, Fried, Allard, Toussaint, Soroka, Anderson, Wentz, and Muller) potentially ready by the time Santana and Smyly left.
 
While I agree that trading one of Mallex/Inciarte is the Braves only real hope of landing a SP with some impact potential, I don't think the Rays are a realistic trade partner because they already have Kiermaier (pre-arb) in CF. Mallex and Inciarte are maximized in CF, and the Rays won't be playing either in CF.

The teams I have read are potentially looking for a CFer are the Mets, Rangers, Cubs, Astros, Cardinals and A's. Since the Cardinals don't really have anything interesting to trade to the Braves, I don't see them as likely. The Rangers will likely bring back one of Desmond or Gomez for CF. I don't think it is likely the Mets and Braves make a trade of that significance.

That leaves the Cubs, Astros and A's as the most likely teams that would want Mallex or Inciarte. We already know the Cubs have been interested from the day the Braves acquired Inciarte, and Baez would fit nicely at 3B. The Astros have tons of prospects the Braves could covet. The A's could send someone like Manaea or Barreto in exchange for Inciarte, or a lesser guy like Chapman for Mallex.
 
Enscheff said:
While I agree that trading one of Mallex/Inciarte is the Braves only real hope of landing a SP with some impact potential, I don't think the Rays are a realistic trade partner because they already have Kiermaier (pre-arb) in CF. Mallex and Inciarte are maximized in CF, and the Rays won't be playing either in CF.

The teams I have read are potentially looking for a CFer are the Mets, Rangers, Cubs, Astros, Cardinals and A's. Since the Cardinals don't really have anything interesting to trade to the Braves, I don't see them as likely. The Rangers will likely bring back one of Desmond or Gomez for CF. I don't think it is likely the Mets and Braves make a trade of that significance.

That leaves the Cubs, Astros and A's as the most likely teams that would want Mallex or Inciarte. We already know the Cubs have been interested from the day the Braves acquired Inciarte, and Baez would fit nicely at 3B. The Astros have tons of prospects the Braves could covet. The A's could send someone like Manaea or Barreto in exchange for Inciarte, or a lesser guy like Chapman for Mallex.
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Dont see the Cubs moving Baez especially with Zobrist getting older.

Big reason Cubs won the WS was defense. Baez, Russell, and Bryant from 2nd to SS to 3B is insane the amount of field they cover in the infield. Rizzo as well.
 
I would talk at length with the A's. Smells like desperation all the way from the coast. Any team that would trade Addison Russell is someone you want to deal with.
 
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